This is a close-up shot of the note that John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, wrote and signed for Alice and Louis Podruch while he campaigned for the presidency in Wausau in 1960.

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Shereen Siewert
| Daily Herald Media

An autograph scrawled on the back of an event program framed with an iconic photo of former President John F. Kennedy hangs prominently on the wall of Alice Podruch's home.

It is, without a doubt, one of the 80-year-old Wausau woman's most prized possessions.

Each year, as the Nov. 22 anniversary of the president's assassination approaches, Podruch touches the frame and takes a moment to reflect on the man she met, albeit briefly, on a campaign stop in Wausau. ...